Among the inspection of underfilled bottles or bottles without seal or label, the inspection of leaking
bottles is an essential requirement to quality assurance in the beverage industry. Leakages influence
the quality and durability of products directly and thus are not acceptable for consumers or
bottlers.
Therefore leakage inspectors are standard products of quality management in the
beverage industry.
The acoustic technology of BBULL MAS/P is for indirect pressure measurement in
CO2 containing beverages. The MAS technology can be applied for glass bottles
with
metal cap, that do not have any measurable deflection, e.g. beer bottles
with crown
cork.
The acoustic sensor MAS works by applying an electromagnetic impulse
to the
top of each container. The “pulse” is produced by a strong
electromagnetic
pulse, which excites the container lid. The lid vibrates
at an individual
resonant frequency “tone”, based on internal pressure.
The resulting “acoustic” signal is received by a microphone, digitally
sampled and
stored in memory for processing. The pc-based
processing
software
produces a real-time signal spectrum and
calculates the
resulting
frequency of the “signal” for every lid.
Thereby the internal pressure is
directly proportional to the vibration
frequency of the inspected container.
Additionally the lid deflection is
inspected by „analogue proximity
technology“. An electromagnetic proximity sensor produces a
permanent magnetic field for monitoring the distance between sensor
and metal cap and produces a distance-depending proportional analogue voltage. The permanent proximity signal is digitally sampled for producing a performance-related value of the cap profile.
The profile value as well as the frequency value of the closure is compared with the user set limits of container format in which containers with a frequency response outside these limits are rejected.

APPLICATIONS

recognition of too little pressure / vacuum

recognition of missing compound

recognition of too much pressure

recognition of broken glass in the area of the neck

recognition of cap leakage

recognition of cocked caps

recognition of hair cracks

INSTALLATION PLACE

For getting high measuring accuracy we recommend the maximum possible distance from the closer to BBULL MAS/P So there is enough time to set up a pressure inside the container which is reduced in case of leakages. Best results can be achieved in combination with a pasteurizer or after labeller.

Sensor bridge
BBULL MAS

DETECTION VALUES

The inspection principle allows the detection of leakers only when the
product specific pressure has been reached. This pressure is basically
depending on the CO2 -level or temperature of the product. A reliable
measurement is only possible when the pressure inside the faulty
bottles is decreased significantly to differ faulty bottles from good bottles.
To reach constant measurements we recommend maximum possible
distance from the closer to the BBULL MAS/P Leaking bottles must
reduce the internal pressure to differ constantly from good bottles .
Thus a statement of inspection reliability is always depending of the
installation place and is always related to the difference to the normal
pressure of good bottles.

SYSTEM ASSEMBLE

The processing software of BBULL MAS/P is installed on a pc-based Inspection System. BBULL offers the basic configuration with a BBULL PC-400 or PC-500 control unit, with 6,4” or 13" touch display with alphanumeric user interface.
In combination with monitoring systems BBULL 5000 with 15“ touch and graphical user interface BBULL offers additional inspections like e.g. camera-based label or cap inspections.